Miami Daily News-Record (Newspaper) - June 17, 1931, Miami, Oklahoma Associated Preu Leased Wire Features MIAMI Miami and a Radius Population 1930 Including North Miami XXVIII 296 Published Every Evening Saturday and Sunday Morning by Miami Publishing JUNE of Publication A Street and First PRICE FIVE Ot RAILROADS SET FOR RATE PLEA Present Petitions Today Asking for 15 Per cent Freight Hike EMERGENCY LOOMS President Hoover Rededicates Lincolns Tomb Earnings Have Shrunk to Percent of Lines It Is Stated June The railroads of the United States today presented to the Interstate Commerce commission their peti tion for a 15 percent increase in freight rates as a means of meet ing the emergency caused by the drastic decline in operating reve Last Thursday the executives of western and southern meeting in New York finally decided to request the blanket increase designed to yield annually in additional gross As evidence of the desire for as sistance without undue the carriers recommended that the commissions investigation of their application be of a limited char acter for the purpose of deter mining whether the new schedules should be allowed to become effec tive without the 90day suspension usually ordered when rate revi sions are Even if this pro is is is pointed it will probably be early autumn before the neces sary can be completed and a decision Emergency Cited The asserting that the roads were confronted with an emergency threatening serious im pairment of the financial resources and their capacity to assure the public a continuance of efficient and adequate said the in creased revenues would yield a yearly net operating in come equal to less than 4 percent on the value of their The fair return prescribed by law is but during the first four months of this the ap plication the return had fal len to an annual basis of per cent for the Class 1 In 1930 it was Earnings of the Class 1 roads since 1921 were said to have dropped about STATES VIEWED BY HOOVER AS LABORATORIES National Ideas Often Get Tryout He Tells Illinois Legislature MURRAY OPENS WAR ON OTHER UTILITY LINES Gas Companies Not Chief He Scor ing Bell Telephone Associated Freat Photo Reconstructed at cost of by the state of the tomb of Abraham Lincoln was rededicated by President Hoover at A copy of the statue in the Lincoln memorial in Washington has been placed in the rotunda of the POLICE OF INTO COURT Habeas Corpus Action by Governors Aide Is Lat est Move in Dispute below the rate of return on capital authorized by The brief emphasized the danger of an impaired credit position and its effect on railroad especially If the roads were getting a fair it railway which are now appropriate for savings banks and trust would continue to maintain that Bond Market a Factor Upon such a basis the market for railway bonds and stock can be It is vitally impor tant that it should be maintained in order that additional capital may be secured for additional im Steam railroad trans portation has not become a muri bund It is essential to the economic welfare of the coun try and indispensable to the na tional All that is neces sary to the maintenance of an ade quate national system of trans portation is that the country should be willing to pay a reason able price for it and that railway investors and railway manage ments should be able to act on that The petition recalled that the roads had clung to their announced late in of continu ing a normal program of ture as long as it could be justi fied from the standpoint of the trust reposed by the railroad se curity holders in the management of the carriers who were adminis tering property though de voted to public is nevertheless private Spent in 1930 That this policy was so adhered to is shown by the fact that during Executive Calls for Conse cration Anew of enry to Service and Ideals That Actuated Great OKLAHOMA June habeas corpus action order ing Police Chief John Watt into court concerning two women pris in the city jail here furnish ed another angle today of the con between ray and the Oklahoma City police over arrest District Judge Tom Chamb ers set a hearing on the action for tomorrow It was filed by Gappy conduct ing an inquiry for who already has pardoned scores of city mostly arrested for The police chief was directed to produce warrants and complaints in the The women are Cora Addington and Jessie arrested for I have been denied the right to examine jail records and to tain who is on what charges and by whom the complaints were said In many cases there has been no complaint as required by the consti no warrant issued in any of the cases I have examined and no commitment papers The governor charged those whom he pardoned were arrested without proper war rants or commitments or that the police court had penalized prohibi tion law violators in violation of constitutional some 50 or 60 addi tional prisoners lingered in the city jail wondering if they would be freed on executive order similar to that which released more than 50 inmates Reeves said he had recommend ed they be turned but before learning Chief Watt kept private records from Reeves the governor announced that for the time being he contemplated no more clemen The controversy arose over a wholesale cleaning of the Cana dian river bottoms by the police Hundreds of vagrants and others have lived in the bot toms in temporary soap box shacks and Governor Mur ray contended many of these were reduced in circumstance because of economic June before the tomb of President Hoover today called for a rededication of the citizenry to the service and ideals of the The eternal principles of justice and never more clear ly stated than by remain the solvent for the problems and perplexities of every age and of our he said in dedicating the remodeled tomb of the Civil war NEW BANK CASE Judge Wilson OverRules Amended Plea for Him to Disqualify District Judge Dennis Wilson has overruled an amended motion for a new judge interposed by the time It is to those like Lin Continued on Page Two Merchandising Index TIONS THAT ARE GUARANTEEING 1931 NORMAL PRICES AND VALUES COLEMAN THEATRE Now Meet the GLORY B THEATRE Ramon Novarro in Next Sunday Dad is king for a DRUG Free box Agnes Sorrel cleans INSURANCE CO Insure with us for complete pro CONSUMERS GAS Console model Roper gas CROWN DRUG McKesson household MILLNER FRIBLEY Base ball B K MENS WEAR Arrow shirts for CUNNINGHAM OIL Circle NATIONAL ADVERTISERS Chesterfield Hills K C Baking Powder Parkers Pepper Drouth Unbroken in Two Wheat States June ranging from a quarter to half fell in Washington and Oregon last but failed to sweep over the mountains into the seriously affected drouth states to the In its weekly report the weather bureau said recent rains had proved beneficial in the east ern and southern portions of the spring wheat but in western North Dakota and eastern the drouth continued unabated am deterioration of spring wheat wa Senator Thomas of Idaho wired Secretary Hyde yesterday asking the Agriculture department to re open the drouth loans in where he said assistance was need ed to prevent suffering and dis tress in a few A sim ilar appeal has been presented by Senator Walsh of The Ohio and Central Miss valleys have sufficient mois ture for the In the beneficial rains fell in and but other sections continued to feel a lack of defense attorneys in bank criminal the Picher leaving the have made these principles serve the needs of that the world pays its At his shrine we light the torch of our rededication to the service and ideals of the nation which he loved and served with the last full mea sure of Text of Address The text of the Presidents speech follows The people of Illinois have aken just pride in the restoration nd beautification of the tomb of leir greatest the sixteenth President of he Unite This memorial erected and dedicated 57 cars Another great citizen f Illinois the eighteenth Presi ent of the United Ulysses Grant made the address on lat It is proper that a of the United States hould take part in its ion at this the tomb of is a hrine to all The stone nd marble of all of our great na ional shrines are more than phy ical reminders of the mighty past f our They are symbols f things of the Through he men and deeds they comme norate they renew our national deals and our It is of the national soul to assemble in these places and to di ect the thoughts of our people to hese occasions and to recall the nen and their deeds which builded he It is an awakening of pride in the glories of the past and an inspiration to faith in the These are the springs replenish that most sacred stream of human Nothing More to Add Nothing that we may say here can add to the knowledge or devo tion of people to the memory of Abraham Nothing we do can add to his stature in All that words can con vey has long since been uttered by nis grateful We gather here today that we of our generation may again pay tribute to the man who not only way clear for the defendants to go to the supreme court or criminal court of appeals in an effort to disqualify Judge Late this week or next Judge County Attorney Perry Porter and the defendants are expected to appear before one of the state high courts and argue the merits of a petition for a mandamus writ which would order Judge Wilson to The defendants charge the ist with bias and seek ing a new and charge the citizenship of Ottawa county with bias and in seeking a change of which was denied by The Picher bank cases are a group of criminal actions brought by the state against Harmon Jack Cameron and Charles charging embezzlement and kin dred crimes were committed through and by the aid of the fail ed Bank of All the de defendants were bank officers CHANGES FORESEEN Machinery of Government Must Parallel Economic He Says June Hoover emphasized the duties of state governments to day before the Illinois assembly and warned that our machinery of government must be shifted some to meet the change in eco nomic and other Hoover reminded the Illinois legislators that state governments are very often the laboratories in which national ideas are first tried He spoke before a Legislature which recently voted repeal of the state prohibition enforcement He stood beside a governor who vetoed that The President spoke in the huge state arsenal across from the state capitol where the Illinois assembly was in joint session with a throng of Reminding the assembly that he was to speak later today at the re dedication of Abraham Lincolns he limited his Be fore going to the and Hoover visited Lincolns old home here and called at the state The presidential party left the arsenal at and Hoover accompanied Governor and Emmerson to the state man sion for The Presidents speech at Springfield today will be the third he has delivered in as many days in the Before a throng that overflowed into neigh boring the chief execu tive yesterday afternoon dedicated the Warren Harding memorial at and the night be Daughter of Tulsa TO USE ALL HIS POWER Electricity Group Also Un der Governor Declares Today OKLAHOMA June Murray began his threatened attack today upon tele phone and power utilities in Okla homa in an effort to bring about a rate Charging the companies were not as fair as the Oklahoma Natural Gas which last week voluntarily reduced rates to 50 cents per cubic the chief executive announced he would bring into play bombing planes and grapeshot and shrapnel and everything necessary to bring them to obedience of law and a reasonable He desires to obtain certain facts before he proceeds and then he will take action in a way that will bring them to their Gas he are not the major The Bell Telephone company put in a dial threw out hundreds upon hundreds of employes and left their rates where they were following the The company has done the same War Days Recalled It will be recalled they wanted to be taken over by the govern ment during the war and were tak en I between the ar and making a final treaty for An extra force was put rates raised and then they were turned back to the companies and they reduced the employes less than they were before the war put in a dial threw out of employment thousands of people over the United States and main Mayor Drowns in Spavinaw Creek June 5 year old daughter of Mayor and Wat kins of was drowned today in Spavinaw 60 miles north east of Her body had not been Earl a city was reported by Joe a water pipe to have been tak en from the water an an scious condition after he had at tempted to save the Watkins Wilson said Caroline 7 daughter of the was not as was first re Water department employes were attempting to resuscitate Wilson Wilson said the two children were wading in creek and step ped off into deep He said rescued Caroline and went back who had disap Young went ap Wilson report ed and was pulled from the water by a filling station attendant who had heard his Watkins wan at Spavinaw with the two but was not at the scene the May or Watkins left his office here by automobile for Spavinaw upon being informed of the CAPONE SPUR S New York Viewed as Objective in Fede Warfare on Gangs AIM AT HIGHER Other Including to Come in for Attention Later Continued on Page Two TWO SELFMADE WIDOWS HANGED AT SAME TIME HUGE NEW GAS Pipe to Extend From Field in This and on Out of State Continued on Page Six or connected with the bank officers through business Late Flashes June Hulbert Clarke of Oklahoma defending was eliminated from the fifth annual womens golf tournament in the second round here 3 and by Beyer of state NEW June De attempting to solve the tarr Faithfull mystery were told oday that six days before the 25 earold girls body was found on she wrote a letter to man with whom she is believed o have been in declaring When you receive this I will be OKLAHOMA for June cu Continued on Page Two JAP FLIER KILLED IN MIDAIR COLLISION June Japa nese naval aviation pilot was kill ed today when his plane collided in midair with another during a practice The other pilot landed safely in a Both planes plunged into the WEATHER FORECAST 0 k 1 Partly local thunder showers tonight and A r k a nsas Partly cloudy local thunder showers in south west portion to night and Thurs Kansas Mostly fair tonight warmer in south and extreme eas portions Thursday increasing possibly followed by local showers at night cooler Thursday in west and north cen tarl MIAMI TEMPERATURE Temperatures in Miami from 2 oclock Tuesday until noon Wed 2 4 6 8 10 84 80 2 4 6 8 10 noon June he farm board will not pledge it elf to withhold stabilization wheat rom domestic markets for another June 17 W Two selfmade widows were hang ed at dawn today in the prison at Szolnok for the murder of their It was the first dou ble execution of women in Hun Frau Szabo went to her death at 6 and Frau Balint followed 30 min utes They were convicted of poisoning their husbands at and Regent Horthy re fused to People came for miles around to witness the The condemned pair bade tearful fare wells last night to their friends and among them a 21 yearold son of Frau These two women and another were sentenced to death last year for poisoning the men of their families so that they might have title to the few acres of farm land on which their livelihood depend Forty women in all were tried in connection with what was des as a widespread plot to children and Most of them receiv ed Jong prison some were acquitted and others are still awaiting Marie Kardos went to the scaf fold in the first woman to be hanged in She had killed her husband and her 22 y earold During the which excited the morbid interests of the entire it was brought out that a sometimes called Aunt the had distributed a deadly poison among the women whom prompted to kill their When the po lice canie to arrest her she commit ted DROWNS IN PIT James iGray Lpes IAI e While Swimming Near June 17 James Mi drowned today in an abandoned mine pit near He had been swimming with several who recovered the He was the son of Edith Gray of James a freshman stu dent in Pittsburg high school dur ing the last school season and re turned to his home at the Villa apartments here at the close of He left Miami for Pitts burg Tuesday for a visit with his Pete with whom he stayed while going to beauty shop operator at the Poteete barber shop left for Pittsburg upon hearing of the bic feet of gas daily from the Ok lahoma City oil and field ap in prospect today to cheer operators who all have felt the pinch of proration and low prices through the last year and a Earl president and organizer of the Western Ser vice announced last night that preliminary surveys have been completed and construc tion will be begun at an early date on a gigantic pipeline project from the city field north and eastward through to who ed the Southwestern er declined to say whether service franchises had been obtained to dispose of the huge gas supply It was reported here that unofficial conr ferences had been held between Western Service corporation and Tulsa Tulsa now is served by the Oklahoma Natural Gas recently involved in much litigation with the state over its The litigation was dis missed yesterday as a result of a recent agreement whereby top rates at the burner tip were fixed at 50 cents in all of the 33 states cities formerly more than that Ernesberger refused to say if he would seek the Tulsa or franchises in by the June Federal spurred by a vic tory over Alphonse Scarf ace indicated definitely day they looked toward New as the next major object their drive against the of gangster Justice department that federal under or from are gaged in quiet investigation thT Simultaneously given at the Treasury force from the division of the international nue with er to peer into bank lend its strength in this Although officials refused to be it denied that some of the scor agents who Spent months in ing piece by piece the charges to which jpil guilty in Chicago transfer their activities to Woodcock Gives Prohibition Director Woq already has directed his fo the New York fonce on the brains behind the proh tion law decla also for various government Along with the authoritative been given that gangster in and Louig will come in some share of federal Whether any one of will see the setup of forces that drive against Capone STRAWS SPIKE G Little Group of Quietly Crippled Boy Saves Child From Ocean LACUNA June 17 crippled youth saved the life of pounding a ocean drowning boy after waves had foiled other cities served The city of Shawnee now is considering a Western Service corporation fran Cost of the proposed line was es at gas fields along the pro posed route would boost the poten tial daily flow available by cubic Ernesberger New Aspect Given To Faithfull Death NEW June dence that Starr Faithfull was a constant user of sleeping potions ave a new aspect today to the in of her District Attorney Elvin Ed wards and Stanley the irls refused to aban don the murder William a druggist of West said Starr of ten purchased sleeping draughts from No prescription is necessary in New The formerly lived in West Alexander New York has found a trace of sleeping potion in Miss Stanley Faithfull admitted that Starr had used a sleeping but claimed that it was nothing Police continued search today for Bruce Winston and Jack Green Edwards desires from them informations as to Starrs move ments June the day before her Her body was found in the water off Long Long June THINK SAFETY Third of Walkers Killed Annually JayWalked the rescue efforts of a human chain of 20 persons and a lone woman swimmer The victim of a childhood attack of infantile Gerald Bar of strug gled feet into a rough surf and recovered John Barton Cara son of Guy Cara wan of Los A respirator revived the Heavy waves had the efforts of Thelma who plunged in and a score of bathers who joined hands in an at tempt to reach young Business Averages 15 Percent From Normal June 17 I A telegraphic survey of business conditions in the United States was announced today by the Na tional Retail Credit in convention as showing that business is only 15 percent below The survey was made of credit bureaus in the country and shows that in some sections of he business vol ume for last while in other parts of the country it has drop ped as low 1930 City operators saw completion of the project as a means of dis posing of millions of cubic feet of gas from the state law allows pro duction of 25 percent of the poten tial flow of a gas There is no ratable taking of as of TO FEEL WEIGHT OF June Lamont today tele phoned the aviation division of the Commerce department and order ed the three pilots who flew over the Harding memorial during the exercises yesterday an investigation June groups of working poring tr clutching at have what all the gangs couldnt Capone Back of the against the tional despite the dei of the stoity of the tedious atten the colorless o the story of got the Scarface Al pleaded yesterday rather than refute that pile of single repeated two tl paid eloquent t to those work resulted in charges t evaded taxes on a of and that he others conspired against the law at least f The Untouchables Aided One group of the men behind the evidence lias been 4ubbed It os eight young prohibition headed by 28yearold El They gained their name beer money could not buy Their activities have com for high since tion conspiracy suit of their was Prohibition cock at Washington an investigation and report to mend them The other the two income tax dedication grounded until could be as 75 percent of the More than one out of three pe killed annually are guil ty of attempting to cross in the middle of the That is near ly as bad as going out to pick violets in No Mans Land in war Just keep in mind that when The advertising carries interest a pedestrian meets an automobile Chamber to Hear Its Farms Committee The agriculture committee of the Miami Chamber of Commerce will report at Thursdays telling of projects underway and Roberts of the Junior Chamber of Commerce will make a report on the Junior Chamber con vention at Des Moines last The Commerce action was taken after President Hoover called on him to make an example of the Two of the planes flew in the vicinity of the crowd but another machine passed over several Lamont joined the special train at Columbus last President Hoover asked Lamont to proceed against the men under existing He said if those laws did not provide for the elimination of such interrup tions he would recommend legis lation to the next Continued on Page Tokyo Alarmed Series of Trema June 17 m vere but fleeting earthquake Tokyo and terrified of sands of persons Starting at quake first manifested This quickly 4 in intensity and developed series of perpendicular i Frightened them with vivid memories of shocks which destroyed large tions of Yokohama and dashed into streets dens for The tremors for about one Preliminary reports Traffic fatalities in the United States for 1930 increased 5 per he always the worst of cent over the previous Governor Chains Chair June chair in Governor Murray s private office was chained to a ra diator pipe today to prevent visit ors from pulling it near him for a confidential I get tired of hving men pull that chair close to then lean over me and speak in low the governor It there was no serious which in earthquake of was shaken and property The loss of life in the earthquake was nearly total casualties More than 300 ed in the Izu Metal Market NEW Lead steady East East Louis spot
